Everyone immediately left when they heard this, but they didn't disperse. Instead, most of them followed the Zhang family to watch the show.
When the village chief saw this, he shook his head and followed. Zhang Laosan was a hooligan, and the village chief was afraid that he would do something even more shameless.
It didn't take long for the news to spread in the village.
Under Zhang Laoda's pressure and the village chief's witness, Zhang Qingqing's mother and her two children took 20 taels of silver, 10 pounds of black flour, a sack of dried vegetables, and two acres of land. They went to Zhang Laoer's family—Zhang Laosan's older brother. Zhao Laoer had died but hadn't left behind a child.
As for Aunt Zhang, when the village chief asked Zhang Laosan to sign a guarantee agreement, she was opposed by the whole family, so she had to leave.
In the evening, all the outsiders in the village had left.